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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD5.3 Medium

CVE-2024-9287

Virtual environment (venv) activation scripts don't quote paths

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Status
Published
Published
Updated
Assigning organization
PSF

Description

A vulnerability has been found in the CPython `venv` module and CLI where path names provided when creating a virtual environment were not quoted properly, allowing the creator to inject commands into virtual environment "activation" scripts (ie "source venv/bin/activate"). This means that attacker-controlled virtual environments are able to run commands when the virtual environment is activated. Virtual environments which are not created by an attacker or which aren't activated before being used (ie "./venv/bin/python") are not affected.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Python Software Foundation CPython

Default version status: unaffected

  • 0 to < 3.9.21affected
  • 3.10.0 to < 3.10.16affected
  • 3.11.0 to < 3.11.11affected
  • 3.12.0 to < 3.12.8affected
  • 3.13.0 to < 3.13.1affected
  • 3.14.0a1 to < 3.14.0a2affected

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